SAS/ACCESS 9.2 for Relational Databases: Reference, Fourth Edition

SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 Under UNIX and PC Hosts 4 Using DBSLICE= 465Using DBSLICE=You might achieve the best possible performance when using threaded reads byspecifying the DBSLICE= data set option for DB2 in your SAS operation. This isespecially true if your DB2 data is evenly distributed across multiple partitions in aDB2 Enterprise Extended Edition (EEE) database system. When you create a DB2table under the DB2 EEE model, you can specify the partitioning key you want to useby appending the clause PARTITIONING KEY(column-name) to your CREATE TABLEstatement. Here is how you can accomplish this by using the LIBNAME option,DBCREATE_TABLE_OPTS=, within the SAS environment./*points to a triple node server*/libname trlib2 db2 user=db2user pw=db2pwd db=sample3cDBCREATE_TABLE_OPTS=’PARTITIONING KEY(EMPNUM);proc delete data=trlib.MYEMPS1;run;data trlib.myemps(drop=morf whatstateDBTYPE=(HIREDATE="date" SALARY="numeric(8,2)"NUMCLASS="smallint" GENDER="char(1)" ISTENURE="numeric(1)" STATE="char(2)"EMPNUM="int NOT NULL Primary Key"));format HIREDATE mmddyy10.;do EMPNUM=1 to 100;morf=mod(EMPNUM,2)+1;if(morf eq 1) thenGENDER=’F’;elseGENDER=’M’;SALARY=(ranuni(0)*5000);HIREDATE=int(ranuni(13131)*3650);whatstate=int(EMPNUM/5);if(whatstate eq 1) thenSTATE=’FL’;if(whatstate eq 2) thenSTATE=’GA’;if(whatstate eq 3) thenSTATE=’SC’;if(whatstate eq 4) thenSTATE=’VA’;elsestate=’NC’;ISTENURE=mod(EMPNUM,2);NUMCLASS=int(EMPNUM/5)+2;output;end;run;After the table MYEMPS is created on this three-node database, one-third of therows reside on each of the three nodes.